paperback originals
First-edition soft covers
Paperback originals are books first published in paperback rather than hardcover.
The term distinguishes them from paperback reprints of hardcover editions.
Publishers release paperback originals to keep costs down, especially for genre fiction, mass-market titles, or works by new authors: Many pulp novels were paperback originals that never saw hardcover publication.
- softcoverBook with flexible covers
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